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The Bank of England convened for its highly anticipated Super Thursday meeting on August 3, 2017. At the conclusion of the meeting, MPC members voted by margin of 6:2 to maintain the current bank rate of 0.25%. BOE members cited concerns about UK economic growth prospects for the remainder of 2017, and tempered expectations of […]

A snapshot of global bourses paints a positive picture. The 1-year appreciation with Wall Street indices reflects strong gains across the board. The NASDAQ composite index is up 24.14%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 18.01%, and the S&P 500 index is up 13.86%. Much the same is true across the Atlantic. The Ibex […]

With all the different trading platforms and startups that I’ve seen over the years, Instavest has a model I haven’t come across before and I find to be quite interesting. Essentially, it enforces a paradigm where lead investors (and investing bloggers) have to actually put their money where their mouth is and followers/investors can profit if they are […]

I was eating lunch with a co-worker today and he told me how he was getting completely out of stocks in his 401(k) account and switching to all cash and bonds. When I asked why, he acted like I was a dope and said, “the market is up over 20% so far this year. Since […]

I was thinking back to how I first became so enthusiastic about saving and investing and how far I’ve come since my dad brought home the first finance book I’d ever read from the library. It was a book about George Soros and how he’d made Billions on a bet against the British Pound. I’m […]

As an investor glued to the news, Jim Cramer and all the doomsday blogs, you’d think markets should have sold off in epic fashion and gold should be breaching $3000 by now. Calamity after calamity has yet to result in the selloff everyone’s waiting for. Going back to 2012, we had the European debt crisis. […]